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How kite photography can empower local communities

Written by . Posted on October 19, 2011. No comments.
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The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science promotes the use of cheap open source tools such as kite photography to empower local communities and raise a sense of ‘ownerhsip’ with important environmental issues.

Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell – Divining a digital future (2011)

Written by . Posted on July 27, 2011. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
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In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) again team up in an attempt to marry ethnography with ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) research. The

How to design better cities with urban interventions and computer code?

Written by . Posted on July 3, 2011. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
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How can we design urban objects that bring about an urban public sphere? And how can we make use of algorithms to make urban design more adaptive to the needs of citizens? These questions were addressed during the first Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam.

Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what?

Written by . Posted on May 30, 2011. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
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Report of City_Play_Data. Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the city.
How do we design urban media that allow citizens to act? Can we use urban games to include citizens in urban planning? And how do we move beyond ‘gamificiation’ ?

The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an Internet of Things to a Public Sphere of Things

Written by . Posted on April 21, 2011. Tagged , , , , , . 4 Comments.
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Recently I contributed a chapter to the book Sentient City Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space edited by Mark Shepard. On May 14 2011 we will also take part in the book launch event in Rotterdam. At certain points in the history

Crisis & chances for the enterprising architect – a report

Written by . Posted on March 12, 2011. Tagged , , . No comments.
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Report of an evening for architects at the Chamber of Commerce, Amsterdam, 3 March 2011 Last week I attended the meeting “Chances for the enterprising architect” (PDF, announcement in Dutch). The evening was organized by the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with innovation network Syntens

Three approaches of digital media and urban design

Written by . Posted on March 9, 2011. 1 Comment.
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Yesterday Virtueel Platform launched a new book on best practices in the field of e-culture in The Netherlands (download regular pdf / pdf for ipad). The Mobile City was invited to contribute an essay for this book. In this article I described three (sometimes closely related)

Review: Aurigi & De Cindio (2008) – Augmented urban spaces

Written by . Posted on March 1, 2011. Tagged , , , , . 1 Comment.
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Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Aldershot: Ashgate. (The introduction is a free read from the website). This book from 2008 had been on my desk for quite some time but finally I got around

Wireless Stories: optimism and doubts about the future of public space

Written by . Posted on February 22, 2011. 1 Comment.
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Last week the Dutch Mediafund and the Design department of the Sandberg Academy organized the conference Wireless Stories: new media in public space. The Mobile City was invited to provide the opening keynote (by Michiel de Lange) as well as a closing statement (yours truly),

The search for immersion in Geomedia

Written by . Posted on February 18, 2011. 3 Comments.
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Imagine if photography was only used to create images for product catalogues. No artistic use came to mind, no aesthetics deemed nesessary. It’s not a strange thought experiment. This, following Bolter and Grusin’s book Remediation, is roughly speaking what happens to any new medium when

Sander Veenhof’s NBeep6 – a free and anonymous 6bit communication channel in Cameroon

Written by . Posted on February 1, 2011. No comments.

Yesterday I visited the Mobile Monday meet-up in Amsterdam, and came across some interesting presentations. I particularly liked the presentation of Dutch artist Sander Veenhof. Over the last few years Veenhof has grown into one of the more interesting practitioners that explore the possibilities of

Why The Economist is wrong about ‘the internet of hype’

Written by . Posted on January 17, 2011. Tagged . 7 Comments.

Some weeks ago The Economist published an article about ‘the internet of things’, with the provocative title ‘The internet of hype‘. The journalist, (nick)named [?] Schumpeter, was invited to attend the corporate event Fundación de la Innovación in Madrid. He raises a number of critical

DATACITY – Report of Amber’ 10 – Art and Technology Festival in Istanbul (November 2010)

Written by . Posted on December 1, 2010. 1 Comment.
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During the 5th and 14th of November, the city of Istanbul became subject and object, host and platform to the fourth international Amber Art and Technology Festival. The festival explores and questions the impact of technologies on social, cultural, and political domains via artistic practices.

Report: Workshop ‘Locative Contours, Residua and Documentary Inclinations’ @ amberconference ’10 “Datacity”

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Between November 5-14th, the city of Istanbul hosted the fourth international Amber Art and Technology Festival. The festival explores and questions the impact of technologies on social, cultural, and political domains via artistic practices. This year’s theme was: DATACITY. The Mobile City’s guestblogger Tina Bastajian

Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy

Written by . Posted on June 10, 2010. 2 Comments.

This weekend the new issue of OPEN will be launched at the Berlin Biennial. “Privacy” is the main theme, and the focus is “not so much on deploring the loss of privacy but on taking the present situation of ‘post-privacy’ for what it is and

Some notes on the design of pervasive games

Written by . Posted on May 20, 2010. 4 Comments.
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How do you design gaming experiences in the city? What is the role of locative and mobile media in urban games? What is the relation between computer games and the city? Those three questions were addressed at two meetings in Amsterdam a few weeks ago,